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Old 11-30-2010, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull View Post
Common there no way they would run out of 5.56 ammo...and the rest of the story why so many troops were running around with capture AKs...lol.
You would think it would be impossible, but it was a issue with the first wave troops. 5.56 ball was ver y hard to come by (tracer on the other hand). Being a armoured cav unit (M1A2/M3) we was last in line since it was assumed we would never do dismounted ops: hence we was only given the basic draw: 210 rounds per M4. But at least we had 7.62 coming out of our ears. On my track I had some 20k rounds, being a tank has its advantages I guess. The brad guys had even more.
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